About

Carlos Paz, legal manager and compliance officer, leads the legal department at agro-industrial company Riopaila Castilla. The high performing in-house legal team is made of five lawyers and two support staff including a legal and compliance manager, a senior compliance and corporate affairs lawyer, a senior labour relations lawyer, a senior litigation lawyer, a contractual in-house lawyer, a specialist in outsourcing and an outsourcing assistant. The legal area of Riopaila Castilla goes beyond the fulfilment of the legal framework by adapting to the changes and needs of the company dynamically, handling a range of matters including data protection changes, working regulations, BASC standards and anti-terrorism funding protocols. Paz identifies that the team has ‘set ourselves a mission, which is to be a strategic business partner. For this we have defined some strategic goals, some guidelines to achieve these goals and some fundamental premises. To achieve our mission, we will work on the fulfilment of four strategic objectives, these being [firstly] excellence in the service we provide, [secondly] the ethical strengthening and compliance of the organisation, [thirdly] the creation of value of the legal process and, [lastly] the creation of a high performance team’.